From: Stefan Lang <perfectly.normal.hacker@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T06:52:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Question on reading text files in Windows

2009/2/2 Jim Knowlton <jknowlton525@gmail.com>:
> Thanks...so if I upgraded to Ruby 1.9, would it convert it
> automatically?

You'd have to tell it that you want to work with UTF-8
internally by putting this at the top of your application:

    Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8

and then tell the read or open function that the file
is UTF-16 encoded, e.g.:

    content = File.read("logfile.log", encoding: "utf-16")

Though I don't know how many gems already work for
Ruby 1.9.1 on Windows.

Stefan